SeeUtkal

Data and stories for understanding Odisha.

Playful discoveries

Odisha fun facts

Watercolor study of a Kalinga temple with a curving tower and stepped front hall

Kalinga Architecture

Explore how Odisha temples stack platform, walls, tower, crown, and hall into one sacred form.

Watercolor boita sailboat leaving an Odisha shore at dawn

Boita Journey

Sail an old Odisha trade route and uncover the stories carried by the monsoon.

Editorial illustration of a Bhubaneswar household ledger table with heat, LPG, fridge, fan, and school objects

Heat Ledger

A 12-month household ledger game about heat, food, cash, and care in Bhubaneswar.

Watercolor government register with ink bleeding into color bands

What's in a Name

How surnames file 46 million people into caste boxes.

Data, society, economy

State analysis

Watercolor cyclone spiral meeting a golden coastline

The Invisible

Why the state that defeated cyclones can't defeat anything else.

Watercolor railway tracks between village houses and distant city

The Leaving

Why Odisha's people build everywhere except home.

Watercolor brass thali with dalma, saga, rice on wooden table

The Odia Table

What the kitchen knows about the state.

Watercolor open-pit mine with ore trucks and steel plant in distance

Value Chain

Where Odisha's mineral wealth goes. Mine to market.

Watercolor map of Odisha with colored districts and compass rose

District Atlas

30 districts. Tap any to see the numbers.

Watercolor magnifying glass over bar chart revealing data

Guess the Gap

Test your intuition about Odisha. 40 questions.